Greek mythology
A major branch of classical mythology, Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the Ancient Greece, ancient Greeks, and a genre of Ancient Greek folklore. These stories concern the Cosmogony, origin and Cosmology#Metaphysical co ...
, Theonoe (
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic peri ...
: Θεονόη) was the
Mycenae
Mycenae ( ; grc, Μυκῆναι or , ''Mykē̂nai'' or ''Mykḗnē'') is an archaeological site near Mykines in Argolis, north-eastern Peloponnese, Greece. It is located about south-west of Athens; north of Argos; and south of Corinth. Th ...
an daughter of the prophet
Thestor
''Thestor'' is a genus of butterflies in the family Lycaenidae. The species are Afrotropical.
Species
*''Thestor barbatus'' Henning & Henning, 1997 – bearded skolly
*''Thestor basutus'' (Wallengren, 1857) – Basuto skolly, Basuto magpie
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and possibly
Polymele
In Greek mythology, the name Polymela or Polymele (Ancient Greek: Πολυμήλη "many songs", derived from ''polys'', "many" and ''melos'' "song") may refer to the following figures:
* Polymele, daughter of Autolycus and one of the possible m ...
, sister to
Theoclymenus
In Greek mythology, Theoclymenus (; Ancient Greek: Θεοκλύμενος) was a prophet from Argos.
Family
Theoclymenus was the son of Polypheides and Aechme, daughter of Haemon, and brother of Harmonides. In some accounts, his parents were ...
,
Calchas
Calchas (; grc, Κάλχας, ''Kalkhas'') is an Argive mantis, or "seer," dated to the Age of Legend, which is an aspect of Greek mythology. Calchas appears in the opening scenes of the ''Iliad'', which is believed to have been based on a war ...
,
Leucippe In Greek mythology, Leucippe ( grc, Λευκίππη means 'white horse') is the name of the following individuals:
*Leucippe, one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-spouse Tethys. Leucippe, along wi ...
. Her name means "divine wisdom" coming from ''theós'' 'god' and ''nóos'' or ''noûs'' 'mind'.Characters from Greek Mythology s.v /ref>
Mythology
When Theonoe was playing outside, she was kidnapped by pirates who took her to
Caria
Caria (; from Greek: Καρία, ''Karia''; tr, Karya) was a region of western Anatolia extending along the coast from mid-Ionia (Mycale) south to Lycia and east to Phrygia. The Ionians, Ionian and Dorians, Dorian Greeks colonized the west of i ...
on their ship, where King
Icarus
In Greek mythology, Icarus (; grc, Ἴκαρος, Íkaros, ) was the son of the master craftsman Daedalus, the architect of the labyrinth of Crete. After Theseus, king of Athens and enemy of Minos, escaped from the labyrinth, King Minos suspe ...
bought her for a concubine. Thestor, however, went in search of his lost daughter, and as a result of shipwreck, came to the land of Caria, and was seized and beaten in chains at the place where Theonoe was staying.
Years later, Leucippe who lost her father and sister, asked
Delphi
Delphi (; ), in legend previously called Pytho (Πυθώ), in ancient times was a sacred precinct that served as the seat of Pythia, the major oracle who was consulted about important decisions throughout the ancient classical world. The oracle ...
replied: "Go throughout the earth as my priest, and you will find them". Leucippe, on hearing this response, cut her hair and disguised herself as a youthful priest, she went from country to country to find them. When she had come to Caria, Theonoe saw her, and thinking she was a priest, fell in love with 'him', and bade 'him' be brought to her bedroom so that she could lie with 'him'. But Leucippe revealing herself to be a woman, said it could not be done. Then Theonoe in anger gave orders that the priest be locked in a room and that someone from the servants' quarters come to kill him.
The old man Thestor was sent unknowingly to his daughter to perform the task. Because so many years had passed, the two did not recognize each other and Theonoe gave her father a sword, setting him out to kill the priest. When he had entered, with the sword in hand, he told Leucippe that his name was Thestor who had lost his two daughters (Leucippe and Theonoe) and had come to this pitch of misfortune that he had been ordered to commit a crime.
When he had turned the weapon and was about to commit suicide, Leucippe, hearing her father's name, wrested the sword from him. In order to go and kill the queen, she called on her father Thestor to aid her. When the two arrive at Theonoe, hearing her father's name, gave proof that she was his daughter. Then Icarus the king, after this recognition, sent them back into their country with gifts.
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Hyginus
Gaius Julius Hyginus (; 64 BC – AD 17) was a Latin author, a pupil of the scholar Alexander Polyhistor, and a freedman of Caesar Augustus. He was elected superintendent of the Palatine library by Augustus according to Suetonius' ''De Grammatic ...
, ''Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus'' translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies Online version at the Topos Text Project.